Pulsing Xenia shrivering up?

[golf4lyfe]

I have a couple frags of pulsing xenia scattered throughout my tank any one of them is sorta shrivering up and some of the heads are turning black. any ideas whats causing this?

 

[Namyar]

they are hardy but mine have done the same thing and died off. I have just the black part away before and had them come back. Not really sure what causes this

 

[jeffgp]

i can never keep them in my tank .. they all seam to die off in a few days . i just dont get it . every thing elese is good

 

[DukemikeIII]

I have 2 small colonies - they shrivil up and are very large several time during the day. It seems to me they do that if water quality is poor - if a shrimp walks by and touches it or someing gets to close - Xenia is weird - check your iodine levels xenias need it badly.

 

[bderos]

Hi Golf. Check out this thread

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=973840

good dicsussion.

 

[ycnibrc]

check you Ph and alk. I bet it's in a low range. Xenia thrive in high ph and high alk. ph>8.2 alk>10

Anthony

 

[pink_floyd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8842247#post8842247 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ycnibrc
check you Ph and alk. I bet it's in a low range. Xenia thrive in high ph and high alk. ph>8.2 alk>10

Anthony

Ditto on the above.. that is one of the things i noticed about xenias too...

 

[pom xenia]

I had some pom that did nice until I got to much calcium inthe water.Now I have done two water and now they only live a few days.

 

[Randy1]

Your PO4 is probably too low for your Xenia. They seem to like higher levels thats way they usually do poorly in sps tanks.